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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / January 2005MacWrite(II) for Modern Macs?
How would a modern Mac, running Mac OS X, read a MacWrite II file? It seems that AppleWorks 6.x doesn't read that old format. Free solutions are preferred. (For my immediate problem, I used a copy of the final version of WordPerfect, which I downloaded.) You can extend this question to any format from Apple's old Mac productivity suite.  SignatureDaryle Walker Mac, Internet, and Video Game Junkie dwalker07 AT snet DOT net > You can extend this question to any format from Apple's old Mac > productivity suite. one can use Intaglio to recover old clarisdraw files (Intaglio more generally is impressive at importing, it will for instance allow to dissociate vectorial pdf pasted in, which only much costlier packages usually do, to my knowledge). Also, probably, GraphicConverter will read just about any graphic format, but it will translate everything into bitmap, not vectorial data. Hervé SignatureFrédérique & Hervé Sainct, h.sainct@laposte.net Frédérique's initial is missing in front of the above address l'initiale de Frédérique manque devant l'adresse email ci-dessus Sunday January 9, 2005 BBEdit Lite is a free download. You will probably be able to open your Word Perfect file with it. You will see your text with some extraneous code for Wd Prfct formatting. Let me know if this works, thoseradiodays@yahoo.com > BBEdit Lite is a free download.BBEdit Lite is no longer available > (at least not from Bare Bones). They've changed its name and [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > This will not give you any formatting at all (no fonts, no bold, no > centre, no nothing), but at least you get your text back. If you need the real thing with all the formatting, and you have lots of documents and lots of time, you could just scrounge an old Mac that has the old software on it. Or for a paid solution you could look at MacLink Plus and see if it translates your files. * posted via http://mymac.ws > If you need the real thing with all the formatting, and you have lots > of documents and lots of time, you could just scrounge an old Mac > that has the old software on it. Or for a paid solution you could > look at MacLink Plus and see if it translates your files. oh, this remembers me I recently saw an emulator for running (very) old mac systems on OSX, indeed I expected something slow and I was baffled at the speed (there even was a commend to voluntarily slow the emulation). It was quite funny, with system 6 or 7 (!), the flashing disk icon after the "dannng" and all :-) You just dropped disk images onto its screen to "load" them... Unfortunately it's probably too old a mac they are emulating. I think it was named Basilisk... Hervé SignatureFrédérique & Hervé Sainct, h.sainct@laposte.net Frédérique's initial is missing in front of the above address l'initiale de Frédérique manque devant l'adresse email ci-dessus My copy of Macwrite II runs on my G5 with OS X 10.3.7. You see, OS X comes with an emulator. > My copy of Macwrite II runs on my G5 with OS X 10.3.7. > You see, OS X comes with an emulator. that was to comment on the person proposing to buy an old mac :-) SignatureFrédérique & Hervé Sainct, h.sainct@laposte.net Frédérique's initial is missing in front of the above address l'initiale de Frédérique manque devant l'adresse email ci-dessus > > My copy of Macwrite II runs on my G5 with OS X 10.3.7. > > You see, OS X comes with an emulator. > > that was to comment on the person proposing to buy an old mac :-) Yah, but you won't be able to read 800K Macintosh floppies with any G4/5 on MacOS X. The driver isn't present as Apple stopped supporting it. If you can boot MacOS 9 and have an Apple Floppy, I'd spend time making disk images. SignatureDeeDee, don't press that button! DeeDee! NO! Dee... On 2005-01-11, Frédérique & Hervé Sainct <h.sainct@laposte.net> wrote in <1gq8nss.qog2m21g60co0N%h.sainct@laposte.net>: > oh, this remembers me I recently saw an emulator for running (very) old > mac systems on OSX, indeed I expected something slow and I was baffled [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Unfortunately it's probably too old a mac they are emulating. I think it > was named Basilisk... <http://emulation.net/macintosh/> <http://www.nd.edu/~jvanderk/sysone/> SignatureHuan |
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